When Oprah Winfrey was seen with five-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe at the Emmys, the theater crowd buzzed that Winfrey could be a step closer to making a Broadway debut.

But a source told us of the pair: “They are not working on a play together. Oprah was at the Emmys because she was an executive producer on ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ and George was the director.”

In 2015, Winfrey was meant to star in Wolfe’s “Night, Mother” but got cold feet.

We hear she then read for another Wolfe show, but didn’t pull the trigger. Wolfe’s next directing Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh” for Scott Rudin.